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talk a little bit about you know labeling foods in california we're fighting for our right to know what we're eating right now only a quarter of the public is actually aware that they're already eating to medically modified foods and so we just don't know what we're eating people are completely unaware seventy five percent of us say they think they've never eaten anything to medically modified so in california we have a ballot initiative that would give us that simple right foods would be labeled may contain genetically modified organisms now critics of this critics of this say that they are concerned that if it's labeled that you're eating a genetically modified food people are going to freak out they say there's no evidence that these foods do any more harm to you than you know if it wasn't and they also say that's going to drive up food prices well the argument about food prices is completely specious it's just has no basis in fact not even in the fact that the opposition site they claim that food prices will rise four hundred dollars that's the cost of switching from g.m.o. ingredie
talk a little bit about you know labeling foods in california we're fighting for our right to know what we're eating right now only a quarter of the public is actually aware that they're already eating to medically modified foods and so we just don't know what we're eating people are completely unaware seventy five percent of us say they think they've never eaten anything to medically modified so in california we have a ballot initiative that would give us that simple right foods would be...
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picked and it's these issues what does this mean for the country going forward to say something now in california that didn't jerry brown's tax measure it actually was approved yeah anti-tax measures these these that i see that were were i think that this was out this was a very good year for obama's get out the vote activities he was able to identify his voters and get them to the polls and i think the more of them that's the end and what that did was that helped a lot of other there's a lot of ballots you had a lot of you have a lot of maybe his his coattails were reflected in these ballot initiatives also i think that there were a lot of people predisposed to vote for these things who got a ride to the polls by the obama campaign could this have anything to do with the fact that in the twenty five blue states that raised taxes and increased spending over the last three years we saw unemployment go down and g.d.p. go up good things and in the twenty four red states that cut taxes cut spending laid off people we saw unemployment go up g.d.p. go down the people are figuring out that this whole re
picked and it's these issues what does this mean for the country going forward to say something now in california that didn't jerry brown's tax measure it actually was approved yeah anti-tax measures these these that i see that were were i think that this was out this was a very good year for obama's get out the vote activities he was able to identify his voters and get them to the polls and i think the more of them that's the end and what that did was that helped a lot of other there's a lot...
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right now he's not here in california i mean we're not calling it that i think it's fairly obvious he's that he's lost michigan and he's lost massachusetts where they really no i mean he was the governor and he's lost new hampshire to you know the state next door in the place where he has a summer home and where you know what he wants a lot of is to many one of many. and one of several out of many of his cadillacs are there but also i was in a meeting in las vegas a couple of weeks ago with harry reid and he struck this so we strongly implied or suggested that if the situation and i think we're seeing play out right now happens that there's a very very real chance that we're going to change the senate rules and blow up with the poster the flipside of that and the reason i think why you would say that is because the republicans came out about a month ago this internal memo was leaked to that said that they're going to they're going to start pushing stuff through if they if they took the senate they would push everything through by reconciliation in other words they would get around the f
right now he's not here in california i mean we're not calling it that i think it's fairly obvious he's that he's lost michigan and he's lost massachusetts where they really no i mean he was the governor and he's lost new hampshire to you know the state next door in the place where he has a summer home and where you know what he wants a lot of is to many one of many. and one of several out of many of his cadillacs are there but also i was in a meeting in las vegas a couple of weeks ago with...
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in some of these states that are not per not blue states or top if we're not talking about california or new york colorado and not and montana purple states where ordinary folks are standing up and saying we've got to do something about this so it's coming from the grassroots i think it's like one hundred sixty cities and states have already passed resolutions through their city councils or the state legislatures calling on congress to send us a constitutional amendment that we can put to the people of whether corporate money should feel they ought to control or part i think it's important to remember our citizens united has not just affected the general election this role of money in politics has also had a major impact during the primary process that i know it seems like forever ago but i one time when we were watching the earlier debates there were eight republican candidates standing on the stage and certainly money played a role in who lasted and who didn't i want to get your take jam on the process as a whole sort of leading up to other republicans having a nominee. is not just
in some of these states that are not per not blue states or top if we're not talking about california or new york colorado and not and montana purple states where ordinary folks are standing up and saying we've got to do something about this so it's coming from the grassroots i think it's like one hundred sixty cities and states have already passed resolutions through their city councils or the state legislatures calling on congress to send us a constitutional amendment that we can put to the...
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on specific issues in the california constitution has seen forty six amendment. as a result of this process this year a total of thirteen propositions have made it to california's ballot but i want to talk to you about three of them first is proposition thirty six a modification of the three strikes law if approved it would change the current law to impose a life sentence only if a felon commits a violent crime or if on their third strike it's related to sex drugs or firearms now if this proposition passes it's estimated that up to three thousand convicted felons whose third strike convictions were for nonviolent crimes could petition the court for new reduced sentences this is particularly significant to the hundreds of people serving life sentences in california prisons for shoplifting small amounts of merchandise campaign funds in favor of this measure far surpass those opposed to it but there are certainly did plenty of efforts to see this measure not pass here's one example. basically what you just saw is not true think of it this way california holds the co
on specific issues in the california constitution has seen forty six amendment. as a result of this process this year a total of thirteen propositions have made it to california's ballot but i want to talk to you about three of them first is proposition thirty six a modification of the three strikes law if approved it would change the current law to impose a life sentence only if a felon commits a violent crime or if on their third strike it's related to sex drugs or firearms now if this...
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got his own business actually it's a real estate company xcel trust at the moment it's just based in california in the u.s. it's a domestic company but they are looking to seek international aid right now hence the reason why they are in russia and as i say they are here to get some cash and the interesting thing is we don't actually know if his dad knows he's here because as far as the embassy is concerned in washington the russian embassy they said that they haven't been informed about his visit and they they were none the wiser about that seems like a whole set of surprises to me but i mean is there a political context visit to well again there's been conflicting reports because we have heard that while matt has been here he's almost levered on his dance behalf because he's told some of putin's aides look should my dad with the election then all that he said wouldn't necessarily come true and you would have good relations all right there was seems like a very kind of two sided approach then to business and politics and one family i mean is that a candidate to be trusted if he's if he's elect
got his own business actually it's a real estate company xcel trust at the moment it's just based in california in the u.s. it's a domestic company but they are looking to seek international aid right now hence the reason why they are in russia and as i say they are here to get some cash and the interesting thing is we don't actually know if his dad knows he's here because as far as the embassy is concerned in washington the russian embassy they said that they haven't been informed about his...
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be serial ports the study looked at two tax changes in california one thousand nine hundred tax credit and i income filers in two thousand and five levy called the mental health services tax that took one percent of income over one million using tax return data the researchers examined out of the changes affected millionaire migration in or out of the state before and after the tax laws were passed the results were pretty straightforward a tax cut for the rich had no effect on more millionaires moving into the state and a mattress a modest top tax hike on the rich tax hike had no effect on more millionaires moving out of the state a similar study was conducted in new jersey with the same result. just the fact that these studies need to be done shows what a privileged position the wealthy have in our political debate in crafting policy nowadays the interests of the rich are carefully considered which is odd considering that it was the rich particular the rich on wall street who were responsible for crashing our economy just a few years back and push for policies that have devastated the
be serial ports the study looked at two tax changes in california one thousand nine hundred tax credit and i income filers in two thousand and five levy called the mental health services tax that took one percent of income over one million using tax return data the researchers examined out of the changes affected millionaire migration in or out of the state before and after the tax laws were passed the results were pretty straightforward a tax cut for the rich had no effect on more millionaires...
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after investing five hundred thirty five million dollars straight from the pockets of taxpayers the california solar company cylindrica went bankrupt perhaps the centerpiece of obama's first term the bitter fight to pass health care reform. by god. that died however the fight for a change in the health care system and build a new political group opposed to government overreach in light of the growing deficit the tea party i want barack obama and harry reid and nancy will see that i'm not i'm giving them my hearing aid today. they're not listening to us tea party or not health care often simply called obamacare passed. phase vote answers the prayers of every american who has hoped deeply for something to be done about a health care system that works for insurance companies but not for ordinary people later up held by the u.s. supreme court the president's affordable care act remains a contentious but important domestic issue while obamacare has overshadowed most other obama accomplishments during his time in the oval office the president recently laid out his plans for a second term on educatio
after investing five hundred thirty five million dollars straight from the pockets of taxpayers the california solar company cylindrica went bankrupt perhaps the centerpiece of obama's first term the bitter fight to pass health care reform. by god. that died however the fight for a change in the health care system and build a new political group opposed to government overreach in light of the growing deficit the tea party i want barack obama and harry reid and nancy will see that i'm not i'm...
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and joining me now to talk more about california's proposition thirty seven is our correspondent. linda hi there i'm on so i want to ask you just how influential monsanto and other corporations are and this political fight. well in this particular political fight i mean it is really a battle between david and goliath we see that months on to other agriculture in and chemical companies have contributed more than forty five million to the no on thirty seven campaign monsanto themselves eight million dollars the entire u.s. campaign only was only able to raise seven million so it's definitely a very very much a grassroots versus corporate movement here and we have to remember them on center over the years over the more than ten years has spent tens of millions of dollars in lobbying and campaign contributions in washington to both parties and a former monsanto executive is in charge of labeling there at the f.d.a. and in charge of monitoring the labeling so as far as monsanto goes and we heard dennis kucinich there in that sound bite i mean they're definitely interested in washington
and joining me now to talk more about california's proposition thirty seven is our correspondent. linda hi there i'm on so i want to ask you just how influential monsanto and other corporations are and this political fight. well in this particular political fight i mean it is really a battle between david and goliath we see that months on to other agriculture in and chemical companies have contributed more than forty five million to the no on thirty seven campaign monsanto themselves eight...
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it's a choice between a bully feeding us lawyers under group trying to keep our way of life on tuesday california and start the fight back against genetically modified organisms if proposition thirty seven to force g m o's in this state to be labeled food you show me a plant organics on the white house lawn but frankenfood rules the world two in three u.s. foods already genetically engineered and g.m. seeds now grow in almost every country around the globe we've obtained this f.d.a. memo showing most of its own scientists board members a danger of still mutations in animals for g.m. most much those of people with autism this still hasn't been a single g.m.o. safety trial on humans so they would see ads call us to thirty seven a no brainer and opponents of genetically modified crops have even set up a spoof whole line. hello and thank you for calling on their customer service if they were developed corner brain cancer or because sterile from eating our g.m.o. products please press three. yes on thirty seven's to kickstart a global food revolution well son says no shoveling tens of millions of doll
it's a choice between a bully feeding us lawyers under group trying to keep our way of life on tuesday california and start the fight back against genetically modified organisms if proposition thirty seven to force g m o's in this state to be labeled food you show me a plant organics on the white house lawn but frankenfood rules the world two in three u.s. foods already genetically engineered and g.m. seeds now grow in almost every country around the globe we've obtained this f.d.a. memo...
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another wal-mart workers strike is underway today dozens of wal-mart warehouse workers and mira loma california walked off the job to protest unsafe working conditions and retaliation by management this is the latest walkout in a string of labor disruptions at wal-mart supply warehouses and retail outlets in september workers are hoping this latest strike spreads to other wal-mart suppliers and retail outlets ahead of the busiest shopping day of the year and next week black friday and wal-mart's fifty year history not a single store in the united states has succeeded in forming a union that again never in the retail giant's fifty year history of workers been walking off the job and mouse as we've seen. in recent months and with black friday low man and wal-mart workers receiving support from nationwide organizations like occupy and the national organization of women which could be this could be a shopping day to remember for the latest josh eidelson joins me now he's a labor journalist and contributing writer to the nation's salon and in these times josh welcome thank you tom what profited a st
another wal-mart workers strike is underway today dozens of wal-mart warehouse workers and mira loma california walked off the job to protest unsafe working conditions and retaliation by management this is the latest walkout in a string of labor disruptions at wal-mart supply warehouses and retail outlets in september workers are hoping this latest strike spreads to other wal-mart suppliers and retail outlets ahead of the busiest shopping day of the year and next week black friday and...
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montana to over half of the simpsons of massachusetts are going to vote on it and entire county in california and we just got started i'm telling you the american people are not taking this line. down we are building a genuine social movement and i don't care whether somebody is what party they're in i don't care where ideology is folks agree with us it moved to them in that we need a functioning democratic republic we're only human beings have inherited a little constitutional rights and that we the people are sovereign then i encourage folks to get involved with us because no matter who wins the presidency and move term in our work will continue unabated we are going to have a constitution to make it clear only human beings have inherent in a legal constitutional rights money is not beach and they're poor not only federal congress but also state legislators and local david david we're going to have to end it there leave on david cobb thank you so much for joining us we really appreciate both of your opinions but we're going to have to move along now i love him or hate on vice president vice
montana to over half of the simpsons of massachusetts are going to vote on it and entire county in california and we just got started i'm telling you the american people are not taking this line. down we are building a genuine social movement and i don't care whether somebody is what party they're in i don't care where ideology is folks agree with us it moved to them in that we need a functioning democratic republic we're only human beings have inherited a little constitutional rights and that...
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interests ok and you mention the bureaucracy regulation that so often pay plays a role of amber in california they had all these alternative energy plans but then realized oh wait we're going to get them out and find there are two they were right exactly it was it was a challenge that they hadn't quite factored into their very aggressive goals so along those lines according to fanciulla times the u.s. has approved only one the core five natural gas plant with export capabilities that it's in cameron parish louisiana it's not slated to begin export ing until two thousand and fifteen according to this article interestingly china and singapore have jointly invested a billion dollars in this plant so have some investors blackstone group so as natural gas does become exportable from the us what impact might this have on natural gas prices in the u.s. market. almost none really it will make up less than twenty percent of the production it has today so everyone's talking about if you just sit down and do the mathematics what these bureaucrats have to understand that it will make up less than a fifth
interests ok and you mention the bureaucracy regulation that so often pay plays a role of amber in california they had all these alternative energy plans but then realized oh wait we're going to get them out and find there are two they were right exactly it was it was a challenge that they hadn't quite factored into their very aggressive goals so along those lines according to fanciulla times the u.s. has approved only one the core five natural gas plant with export capabilities that it's in...
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to oversee this process and this has to officials in california in states across the u.s. upset very upset so much so that texas attorney general greg abbott and iowa secretary of state matt schultz are actually threatening to subject the monitors to criminal permanent prosecutions if they are found within one hundred feet of a polling station but why are these state officials so afraid of international oversight to ensure a fair and democratic election process joining me now is the answer is john green bob he's the chief counsel of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law hey there john let's start off by asking why are iowa secretary of state and the texas attorney general so opposed to voting monitors. again things are having me. i really don't know it's really silly the monitors from europe have been more during . our elections for the last several years and be meeting with them to morrow and there is never been a problem like this before would you consider this a double standard considering the fact that the u.s. is advocating this group the o.s.c. and they're
to oversee this process and this has to officials in california in states across the u.s. upset very upset so much so that texas attorney general greg abbott and iowa secretary of state matt schultz are actually threatening to subject the monitors to criminal permanent prosecutions if they are found within one hundred feet of a polling station but why are these state officials so afraid of international oversight to ensure a fair and democratic election process joining me now is the answer is...
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this is paul this is paul ok great april so what's up yeah i live in santa cruz california and i could see these billionaires and millionaires coming over to santa cruz in california just to the safe haven and i mean listen to me just recently just get involved with a special needs trust you know the basics of it so many layers to peel off that you can't even get to these people paul i appreciate your perspective and i think that you're right increasingly what we're seeing in the united states is this kind of balkanization this this. the private neighborhood of of america and it's not it's not the direction that we should be going as a country we should be more all in this together gary in miami gary welcome to the program thanks for calling. gary are you are on the air live. on tom thank you for your show and also thank you for having me on the sprinkler on them on these great work i want to ask you what your thoughts are about possibly. restructuring the parks code to favor cooperatives so that average workers would not have to give so much of their own home you know wages and well t
this is paul this is paul ok great april so what's up yeah i live in santa cruz california and i could see these billionaires and millionaires coming over to santa cruz in california just to the safe haven and i mean listen to me just recently just get involved with a special needs trust you know the basics of it so many layers to peel off that you can't even get to these people paul i appreciate your perspective and i think that you're right increasingly what we're seeing in the united states...
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southwest of the us have driven more than six thousand miles over six states obo won four of the states california nevada colorado and new mexico arizona soon was going to be a blue state so horribly wanted in arizona it won't want a new time well. most of the states the volt is absolutely crucial i talk to latinos trauma but well there's all of think that scars to rockabilly talk to guy who is this man and then sure printers and the art gallery owners in santa fe for instance and everybody was telling me the same saying the way the republicans tried so hard to disenfranchise poor voters black folder spending both most of all of them voters this you know the latino community you know the states and all across the west as well they look at the really hard if you were not understood as essential to the progress and for the well being of future america so seventy one percent of latinos bowled over us for the democratic and voted obama today this was the key to the victory from the beginning and the republicans never saw it coming because they never knew how to address the bush and the latino populati
southwest of the us have driven more than six thousand miles over six states obo won four of the states california nevada colorado and new mexico arizona soon was going to be a blue state so horribly wanted in arizona it won't want a new time well. most of the states the volt is absolutely crucial i talk to latinos trauma but well there's all of think that scars to rockabilly talk to guy who is this man and then sure printers and the art gallery owners in santa fe for instance and everybody was...
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re liz this has been a bastion for fund raising although california really doesn't have a lot of impact in the national presidential election it's a traditional blue state i mean president obama has raised over one hundred million dollars here in california mitt romney you know he wasn't far behind you he raised almost seventy million dollars so in that instance california is very important although is very very likely going to turn to obama but what is really happening here and there is really pushing people's buttons is that there are eleven beller initiatives in although they only affect california law some of these initiatives could potentially have some national ramifications such as one that aims to crack down on unions another one which would end the death penalty in another one which would require labeling of g.m.o. foods so well this is a definitely a democratic state it appears that there are a lot of people voting through mail which also benefits democrats although what we're seeing today is that the numbers of people actually going to the pows are smaller than they were four
re liz this has been a bastion for fund raising although california really doesn't have a lot of impact in the national presidential election it's a traditional blue state i mean president obama has raised over one hundred million dollars here in california mitt romney you know he wasn't far behind you he raised almost seventy million dollars so in that instance california is very important although is very very likely going to turn to obama but what is really happening here and there is really...
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state electoral college vote those nine states that have passed national popular vote laws include california maryland and illinois accounting for one hundred thirty two electoral votes among them nearly half of the two hundred seventy needed in the electoral college to win the white house if this trend continues and enough states sign up their combined electoral college votes to add up to two hundred seventy and the electoral college dies just like that so far only blue states are on board with this idea but red states mostly because their power brokers want to keep cheap labor they still prefer the electoral college but look at the polls heading into this election where there's a chance that president obama could lose the popular vote yet win the electoral college come out and stay president if that happens maybe some red states will jump on board with this idea for more information on this go to national popular vote dot com. and that's the way it is tonight on the big picture wednesday october thirty first two thousand and twelve and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there ge
state electoral college vote those nine states that have passed national popular vote laws include california maryland and illinois accounting for one hundred thirty two electoral votes among them nearly half of the two hundred seventy needed in the electoral college to win the white house if this trend continues and enough states sign up their combined electoral college votes to add up to two hundred seventy and the electoral college dies just like that so far only blue states are on board...
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and that's going to be a huge shift in the numbers when we do get not just california i think oregon washington state we would see there's a variety of states of western. it's still it's still coming down to we're still waiting to hear what's happening in florida and ohio and virginia and virginia the voter suppression states the states where they have made it really really hard particularly for democratic voters to vote and so those people are still standing in line here it is a lot of o'clock at night hours after the polls closed also at eleven o'clock. o'clock at night we have r r t correspondent megan lopez at sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue where of course president obama hopes to stay and romney hopes to move into we also have that man producer of breaking this that live from miami and of course our tease ramon go window in los angeles hello to all of you. as well so. so so first of all does anybody have any. late information or anything you want to toss in before we get into specific questions meghan let's start with you what are you seeing outside of the white house is an
and that's going to be a huge shift in the numbers when we do get not just california i think oregon washington state we would see there's a variety of states of western. it's still it's still coming down to we're still waiting to hear what's happening in florida and ohio and virginia and virginia the voter suppression states the states where they have made it really really hard particularly for democratic voters to vote and so those people are still standing in line here it is a lot of o'clock...
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plants the united states are facing the same situation as do we have account well many i mean out on the california coast you've got diablo canyon with two reactors you've got san onofre with two reactors near the san andreas fault and major fault lines and in fact all the time in recent years there have been discoveries of new fault lines so just off of the canyon very close by within a mile or a few miles a new fault line was discovered called the shoreline fault line and up at indian point very close to new york city within twenty five miles of city limits new fault lines were discovered ironically enough indian point in new york is perhaps the most risky reactor there's two reactors there in terms of seismic risks and because the plant wasn't built strongly enough to a step. and then it was just regarded as it's in the east there are no seismic risks it wasn't built well and now those fault lines right nearby so it could crack the same way the washington monument did when we had a small earthquake here in d.c. or that very earthquake you mentioned august of two thousand and eleven actually did
plants the united states are facing the same situation as do we have account well many i mean out on the california coast you've got diablo canyon with two reactors you've got san onofre with two reactors near the san andreas fault and major fault lines and in fact all the time in recent years there have been discoveries of new fault lines so just off of the canyon very close by within a mile or a few miles a new fault line was discovered called the shoreline fault line and up at indian point...
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keeping drone use a secret it appears that's what's happening in a california county this after a freedom of information act request from an organization called a mock rock and the electronic frontier foundation that request as part of their ongoing effort to conduct a drone census across the country to find out who has them and who wants them when the san diego sheriff was asked to fork over the dot the drone documents he said there weren't any i first there was no cause for alarm but after looking into responses from other cities it became apparent that san diego dead and fact have documents for training pertaining to drones so why the big secret for more on this artsy correspond are among the landau joined us earlier i first asked and how it came to light that san diego had these documents relating to drones. the electronic frontier foundation and mark rock have been conducting this drone census where they're using the freedom of information act to get this information regarding drones from several different law enforcement agencies now when they send you a sheriff departments and he w
keeping drone use a secret it appears that's what's happening in a california county this after a freedom of information act request from an organization called a mock rock and the electronic frontier foundation that request as part of their ongoing effort to conduct a drone census across the country to find out who has them and who wants them when the san diego sheriff was asked to fork over the dot the drone documents he said there weren't any i first there was no cause for alarm but after...
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let's be honest when obama came into office liberals became complacent now shifting course being a california girl i was especially saddened at the news that prop thirty seven did not pass and fortunately monsanto won big in california i guess the lesson is that when you spend forty seven million dollars you can convince people to vote against their interests but the bottom label g m o's is far from over but you know i do see a silver lining in the wake of this election the hangover not only is it a good thing that romney doesn't have access to the biggest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world well let's think about the monumental shift that happened last night by way of to my direct.
let's be honest when obama came into office liberals became complacent now shifting course being a california girl i was especially saddened at the news that prop thirty seven did not pass and fortunately monsanto won big in california i guess the lesson is that when you spend forty seven million dollars you can convince people to vote against their interests but the bottom label g m o's is far from over but you know i do see a silver lining in the wake of this election the hangover not only is...
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or do you think is building the wall between mexico and california. getting stateside contractors at fourteen dollars an hour paying us . not. half the workers are probably undocumented or tearing false documentation because they're taking a lower salary.
or do you think is building the wall between mexico and california. getting stateside contractors at fourteen dollars an hour paying us . not. half the workers are probably undocumented or tearing false documentation because they're taking a lower salary.
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together and then when the when a community in southern new jersey is wiped away a community in southern california or our entire nation for that matter helps to rebuild this cuts to the core difference between conservatives who thinks the commons should be a profit center for companies like bain and progressives who believe we're all in this together and a government run by the people for the people we the people has an obligation to help when disaster hits this is a fundamental political and moral choice and one we need as a nation to address soon because of this rapidly warming planet earth these types of storms will keep happening with ever increasing frequency. now for more let's turn over to our lone liberal rumble. it's wednesday are you ready to rumble joining me for tonight's alone liberal rubble are francesca chambers editor and publisher with red alert politics and austin peters a libertarian commentator and director of production at freedom works and thank you both for being with us tonight let's get started you heard what i had to say in the rant should helping americans or cover from
together and then when the when a community in southern new jersey is wiped away a community in southern california or our entire nation for that matter helps to rebuild this cuts to the core difference between conservatives who thinks the commons should be a profit center for companies like bain and progressives who believe we're all in this together and a government run by the people for the people we the people has an obligation to help when disaster hits this is a fundamental political and...
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or do you think is building the wall between mexico and california. giving stateside contractors at fourteen dollars an hour paying off. half the workers are probably undocumented or tearing false documentation because they're taking a lower salary. and this is the wall along the mexican border. is difficult when you look we're joined by a special guest fernando suarez del sol minister look i've been asked about this country's mixed messages.
or do you think is building the wall between mexico and california. giving stateside contractors at fourteen dollars an hour paying off. half the workers are probably undocumented or tearing false documentation because they're taking a lower salary. and this is the wall along the mexican border. is difficult when you look we're joined by a special guest fernando suarez del sol minister look i've been asked about this country's mixed messages.
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we used to have before ronald reagan all across the united states or in many places it is certainly california is out for people say yes what are you willing to pay taxes for people say yes you are and you're willing to say yes well the majority the vast majority so you think you should be able to exit for that and all of our money yes i think redeploy i think we're all in on this. really more when there are these then we should reserve you using force to take my money should be reserved for areas of mass consensus i'm telling you you don't have the sixty five percent of americans in the exit polling after the last election so they thought the taxes should go a good forty nine percent of americans don't like obamacare so you're telling me that fifty one percent of america should be able to buy force take forty nine percent of america's money because you've declared it a mandate well that's how it works though they've done that so i don't that's a you know that is that was reagan said the same thing he said ok by force we're going to take a trillion dollars from people's money going to their he
we used to have before ronald reagan all across the united states or in many places it is certainly california is out for people say yes what are you willing to pay taxes for people say yes you are and you're willing to say yes well the majority the vast majority so you think you should be able to exit for that and all of our money yes i think redeploy i think we're all in on this. really more when there are these then we should reserve you using force to take my money should be reserved for...
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carpet with their celebrity endorsements in tow but while these two candidates soak up the spotlight california's poor is left in the shadows that story ahead. plus do you know where your voting ballot is the media and pundits are playing up of fear mongering when it comes to voter fraud and voter suppression but not really citing any example in particular our team found one case that will tell you where it happened and who's behind it. is monday november fifth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you watching our team. y.b. election eve everyone coming up very shortly in our to america's studios here in washington d.c. the final debate before the election it's a third party debate tonight featuring libertarian gary johnson the former governor of new mexico and dr jill stein representing the green party now you might remember this debate was scheduled for last tuesday october thirtieth but was moved to tonight due to superstorm sandy so here we are one night before the presidential election and we want to remind you that for most of you across the united states when you go to the polls to
carpet with their celebrity endorsements in tow but while these two candidates soak up the spotlight california's poor is left in the shadows that story ahead. plus do you know where your voting ballot is the media and pundits are playing up of fear mongering when it comes to voter fraud and voter suppression but not really citing any example in particular our team found one case that will tell you where it happened and who's behind it. is monday november fifth five pm in washington d.c. i'm...
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appreciate the call thank you very much and thanks for watching us there in ontario lewis in saratoga california on extension ninety seven lewis thank you very much for calling what's on your mind and i thought thanks for the great show and and the other person the substitute for you he does a great job. for the phone it was like talking to him what i'm calling about is something that. when i was raised with was money years ago we never talked about middle class we were a classless society and more and more we talk about us being middle class citizens we're mid income students and we're not what happens the classless society that we have i wish they'd just change them calling people middle class all the time well louis i prefer your perspective and you're raising the topic. my recollection is that middle class upper class lower class whatever those phrases have been around for for my lifetime which i'm guessing is probably at least as long as yours but. and i mean you know maybe we should use words like the proletariat or something but i think that this is what is common usage is the common vern
appreciate the call thank you very much and thanks for watching us there in ontario lewis in saratoga california on extension ninety seven lewis thank you very much for calling what's on your mind and i thought thanks for the great show and and the other person the substitute for you he does a great job. for the phone it was like talking to him what i'm calling about is something that. when i was raised with was money years ago we never talked about middle class we were a classless society and...
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those and i think it's fascinating that mitt romney has lost all four states where he has mansions in california and michigan he grew up in a mansion in michigan massachusetts new hampshire and paul ryan his running mate wisconsin they've lost that and as we did talk about in the last hour scott walker who launched a successful recall election there in wisconsin and yet the state this time around went to obama so certainly some interesting. trends that we're seeing there but as we do wait on more results to come in i want to talk more about voting we've seen over the course of the last few years numerous voting laws changed across the united states in fact more than thirty states have enacted some version of voter id law or changes to the way people cast their ballots republicans claim it's an attempt to stop. fraud democrats argue it's voter suppression so who's right joining us now to talk more about this is brad friedman read blog dot com one of the great investigative reporters. in america who has been doing this this election protection beat now for years and there's nobody in the country w
those and i think it's fascinating that mitt romney has lost all four states where he has mansions in california and michigan he grew up in a mansion in michigan massachusetts new hampshire and paul ryan his running mate wisconsin they've lost that and as we did talk about in the last hour scott walker who launched a successful recall election there in wisconsin and yet the state this time around went to obama so certainly some interesting. trends that we're seeing there but as we do wait on...
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thanks so much for coming on everyone so let's start with you i mean i was devastated as a california girl to find out about the g.m.o. labeling failing in california when paul nationwide ninety percent of americans wanted some what happened. that can be answered with just one word monsanto they spent millions of dollars trying to defeat this ballot initiative along with chemical companies dupont and they wanted to do have nothing to do with this label initiative like you said it had a lot of favor ability early on in the polls but just this massive amount of negative ads claiming that it was going to boost grocery cause for the average family really had a strong effect and at a time when there's a lot of ballots or there's a lot of initiatives on the ballot people really didn't have a lot of time to go and do their own research and they were confused by this a lot of them voted no but supporters of proposition thirty seven say they are giving the they're glad that this did get the discussion going about jim mose and they will likely be trying other ballot initiatives like these and o
thanks so much for coming on everyone so let's start with you i mean i was devastated as a california girl to find out about the g.m.o. labeling failing in california when paul nationwide ninety percent of americans wanted some what happened. that can be answered with just one word monsanto they spent millions of dollars trying to defeat this ballot initiative along with chemical companies dupont and they wanted to do have nothing to do with this label initiative like you said it had a lot of...
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now it's going to be a lot tougher for da da agents to be conducting mass raids like they do here in california because it's being used for recreational purposes is very likely that i mean we're going to see an explosion of these sort of shops in colorado and in washington and be very tough to go down and crack down on each one individually but we also have to take a look at what this the implications are worldwide already mexico's president elect yesterday said that these legalization efforts here in the united states are going to really force him to reevaluate the direction that mexico takes in the drug war and i think a lot of other latin american countries are taking that same stance and there's a really quick follow up i know that the very strikes are reform law did pass remember we saw the death penalty to abolish the death penalty did not pass why do you think that didn't. yes well first of all we have to remember that there were actually many inmates who are currently on death row which also opposed. proposition thirty four which would have eliminated capital punishment their reasoning
now it's going to be a lot tougher for da da agents to be conducting mass raids like they do here in california because it's being used for recreational purposes is very likely that i mean we're going to see an explosion of these sort of shops in colorado and in washington and be very tough to go down and crack down on each one individually but we also have to take a look at what this the implications are worldwide already mexico's president elect yesterday said that these legalization efforts...